Monday, January 19, 2009

Posted by lizwinfrey on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Visit lizwinfrey's BodyDaemon Journal.

I'm still feeling pretty crappy today, sore throat, tiredness, headaches etc.  Recovering from a cold pretty much sucks.  I weighed myself this morning at 10 and was 206.6.

I polished off the last of the chocolate cake today.  It had to go and right now, it did wonders to help cheer me up.  Now that it's gone, no more cheating on my proper nutrition (I hate calling it a diet, since I want to try to eat healthy every day for the rest of my life).

My hand / wrist RSI problem - update

Posted by jim on Saturday, January 10, 2009. Visit jim's BodyDaemon Journal.

Found out a little more about what's going on with my hand.

Apparently I have mid-carpal instability. When I was younger I broke my arm and since this was during adolescence, apparently the growth plates hadn't fused and the bone healed 'flat' (it should be curved).

As a result my wrist subluxes all the time which is stressing out the ligaments and leading to instability.

Up until now this hadn't caused me pain, but now it seems to be. This is likely a result of some/all of the following:

• I haven't been lifting due to my shoulder injury thus have lost a significant amount of forearm muscle and strength.
  
  
• Due to the shoulder injury (right) I've been using my left hand more
  
  
• I've been doing an awful lot of keyboard work over the last 18 months, more than usual
  
  
• Chronic build-up of inflammation
  

I was advised that at some point in the future I'll probably need corrective surgery, but this doesn't have to happen for a while, certainly not in the next year or two.

Here's a link with some more information about mid carpal instability (warning: Graphic images of surgery are there, don't look if you are squeamish)

Fortunately it does't feel as bad at the moment, and using a Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard really seems to be helping:

General update

Posted by jim on Wednesday, January 07, 2009. Visit jim's BodyDaemon Journal.

I've not written anything for a while so thought I'd update with how things are going.

Knee[s]
No real change, but I am attacking the plan I formed with my physiotherapist which is comprised of:

• Medial glute work
• Massage of the lateral retinaculum
• General glute activation work (eg: bridges)
• Quad exercises with an emphasis on the VMO

My knee feels the same, but my medial glutes are definately getting stronger. I'm going to see my physio in about 10 days and get him to observe the changes in my pelvic tilt and posture. Hopefully I'm dropping my hip less.

Shoulder
Not much has happened. I had my MRI Arthrogram today and will see the consultant to review the results next Wednesday - so until then I won't know anything else. Until I know what's happening with it I am not doing any shoulder exercises as I don't want to make things worse.

Hand
I had a bit of a scare with RSI in my hand. It was so bad I thought I'd broken my wrist! Fortunately it feels a lot better now. I've got a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard and it's helping a lot.

Bodydaemon
Real life is busy for the next few days but I'll be back to adding new features very soon. Next things to be done are going to be:

• A few new reports (I want a 'time spent doing cardio' report, and 'distance travelled in cardio'
  
  
• Lots more exercises videos
  
  
• Tidying up of the exercise libary
  
  
• A more flexible way of recording exercises - so you'll be able to record as much information as you want in terms of distance, time, resistance etc. This came about when recording farmers walks - I got to thinking that some cardio exercises may involve resistance, and some resistance exercises may involve duration / distance. So once this is done, you guys can record exactly which information you want to. Exercises will have defaults (eg: by default 'running' will show distance and duration, but won't show resistance or reps!) - but you can tweak these

Hope you are all well. Not sure anyone is reading this, but still :-)

one last push

Posted by Dimebag on Monday, January 05, 2009. Visit Dimebag's BodyDaemon Journal.

Going to make one final push to cut again, this time I really want it.

I've got a good healthy diet sorted out and I'm going to be doing a mixture of weights and CV. The key is clearly consistency and I've got to stop pissing around being dissapointed that I dont get anywhere in a week and watch what I'm putting into my face.

Starting off well, 2 good workouts in 2 days, i'll see how I feel at the end of the week as to how sustainable it is.

I want to be lean! I will be lean.

PS - Thanks for new gloves Ad, it doesnt half make grip more difficult though putting a fairly thick barried inbetween you and the bar...